I feel like I’m poaching in Christopher Othen’s territory. I claim justification: It was Othen who put Frontier Partisans moccasins on the trail that led to the wild and wooly world of Cold Warrior Mitchell WerBell III. Here’s the caper: Reader Brian H. reported going down a rabbit hole after reading the FP post on Othen’s new book, The Men From … [Read more...] about The SCIONICS Man

Gotta love it when a greybeard gets to be an action hero. You know what Gus McCrae said: “The older the violin, the sweeter the music.” The context was slightly different, but roll with it. As a feller with plenty of grey in the beard, but one determined to stay in fighting trim, I am giving a big Oh, HELL yes! to Jeff Bridges in the forthcoming … [Read more...] about Working The Trapline — Old Men & Texas Rangers

Getting the first look at the forthcoming sci-fi/horror film Prey, which is part of the Predator universe first entered by Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1987. (Strange to hit Arnold twice in a week...) In this yarn, the very first visit of the extraterrestrial predator to Earth brings on a confrontation with a young Comanche girl. Drops on Hulu … [Read more...] about Prey

Lady Marilyn and I conducted a lightning raid across the mountains Thursday night — part of a secret mission conducted on behalf of Frontier Partisans. More, I cannot say... yet. Conditions were more adventurous than one expects in the middle of May. Snowstorm across Santiam Pass  and down the west side of the Cascades to Marion Forks. … [Read more...] about Working The Trapline — A Secret Mission & Waterfalls

Conan the Barbarian premiered in North America this day in history, May 14, 1982. The milestone has led to a tranche of retrospectives popping up in the haunted ruins of civilization that I regularly explore, and I am moved to add my own. I was 16 in 1982, coming to the end of my junior year in  high school. And I was an ardent reader of the … [Read more...] about A Barbarian Looks At 40

Lady Marilyn and I finally watched the Season 6 finale of Outlander Sunday night. What can I say? It’s been BUSY ’round here! The season ended with a bang — multiple bangs, actually — as our heroes were caught in a firefight defending hearth and home from a quasi-legal potential lynch mob out to punish Claire for a purported murder. No spoilers … [Read more...] about Frontier Partisan Firearms — The Guns Of Outlander

“In a violent and often irrational world perhaps my paintings can bring a moment of pleasure – of values that can be understood by many people and even rub off on a few aspiring artists. What more can I ask for or expect to attain in my own lifetime? After that, my fate and reputation will be in the hands of curators, collectors, dealers, critics … [Read more...] about A Salute To James Bama

“Now we’ve got that damned cowboy as President!” — Senator Mark Hanna upon learning that President William McKinley’s had died from an assassin’s gunshot in September 1901 and that Theodore Roosevelt was now President of the United States * The Frontier Partisan President gets the History Channel prestige documentary treatment over … [Read more...] about ‘That Damned Cowboy!’

* Currently at work on the final episode of the Frontier Partisans Podcast series on filibustering. This podcast will explore an episode that occurred far afield from the Central American theater usually associated with filibustering — and much later. The Jameson Raid took place at the turn of the year 1895/96, in the Transvaal in Southern Africa. … [Read more...] about The Jameson Raid

Lady Marilyn had a plan for Saturday. She was craving the road and some wide open spaces. So we headed East to reconnect with the West. The mission was to hit Crystal Crane Hot Springs, a three-hour drive way out into the sage, not far from the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. The hot springs was a McGuffin, really, mostly a reason to hit the … [Read more...] about Working The Trapline — Old Corrals And Sagebrush